Tuesday 25 November
Zehr's gets its fish in on Tuesday, so Holt picked up a pair of nice big black sea bass. They came ungutted, so he sharpened his knives (I said sturgeon, not . . .) and recalled Julia's lesson on how to clean a fish ("Slit from head to anus"—possibly the first time that word was used on PBS).
We did them in a simple Chinese style, with a bit of improv to make up for the lack of a steamer - more or less as HERE.
And this is where preparation stopped, because a telecommunications failure (apparently snow makes Canadian phone lines wonky - go figure) left Barbara stranded at school till she got a ride from a kindly TA; while Holt tried to get in touch, went up there, found that she'd gone, and came back just before she actually arrived, starving. So dinner only got started at a fairly ungodly hour.
Anyway, after the joy of reunion and some impromptu appetizers to keep body and soul together, slivers of ginger and red onion (playing the role of scallions) with just a dash of soy and sugar were poured over the pyrex pan of fish, which was then covered with foil and set in a roasting pan with some hot water around it. Baked at 400ยบ for about 25 minutes. Really quite a nice fish dish.
For dessert a plum clafouti, for additional comfort after a trying but ultimately harmless day.
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